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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Mixed Use, Office, Residential Tags: Balcony, Construction, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Studio Gang Architects, USA architecture
Aqua Tower by Studio Gang Architects in Chicago has a beautiful vertical topographical pattern which is defined by outdoor terrace projections. These outdoor terraces gradually change from floor to floor over the height of the building that presents a sculptural appearance to the city. + Project description courtesy of Studio Gang Architects Aqua Tower is [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: i29, Modern furniture
i29 l interior architects creates a new area in fashionable corporate responsibility for Gummo advertising agency. As Gummo were only going to be renting the space on the first floor of the old Parool newspaper building in Amsterdam for two years, i29 convinced Gummo to embrace the mantra of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ to create a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Art Gallery, XTEN architecture
Sapphire is a residential gallery addition to private residence with approximately 1,500sf located in Los Angeles, California, designed by XTEN Architecture. The lightweight structure lifted off the ground, creating a shaded multi-functional space for family use, the gallery on top enclosed by huge glass provides a better view to the surrounding hills. + Project Description [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Canada, Paul Raff Studio
Plan, elevation and section are always our favorite drawings to tell a full story to a project, further to our previous post of Eco-Friendly Cascade House by Paul Raff Studio. Here are the floor plan, elevation and section shared by architect Paul Raff Studio. Floor Plan courtesy of Paul Raff Studio Elevation & Section courtesy [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: 3LHD, Features, Glass, Modular design
Croatia-based 3LHD Architects has won a competition for a business center in Zagreb, Croatia. + Project description courtesy of 3LHD Architects The competition program is placed on a crossing of two streets, Miramarska and Bednjanska. It is a point of colliding two urban city concepts: north part with classical city blocks of the Zagreb’s lower [...]
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Category: Design, Education, Furniture, Interior Tags: i29, Modern table, School, Snelder Architecten
Netherlands-based i29 interior architects recently has completed the interior design of a public school Panta Rhei which was designed by Snelder Architecten located in Amstelveen, Netherlands. The inspiration of the design is come from the name of school – Panta Rhei, meaning ‘everything flows’, ‘everything is in motion’. This led to a design that leaves [...]
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Category: Commercial, Design, Interior, Lighting Tags: .PSLAB, Modern light, Pendant light, Restaurant
Lebanon-based design firm .PSLAB beirut developed for a restaurant in Cairo a lighting system made of metallic beams carrying horseshoe-like fixtures. The grid of the substructure is induced by the façade’s architectural layout of windows and walls.
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Architecture Award, Canada, Paul Raff Studio, Pavilion
Canadian Architect Paul Raff, will be the first architect awarded both R.A.I.C. Awards of Allied Arts Medal and the honourable mention for Innovation in Architecture on June 20 in Montreal during the R.A.I.C. Festival of Architecture. + Press release Unprecedented winner of two R.A.I.C. Awards of Excellence leads trend toward a NEW integrity-based architecture. Canadian [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Capdell, Modern Chair, Modern furniture
Jaime Bouzaglo has designed the Elizabetha chair for Capdell. On this occasion, the firm has launched a two-seat settee version, baptised with the name Les Amoureux. This was the idea of Bouzaglo himself, as he explains, Les Amoureux brings to mind two lovers, holding each other around the waist, giving the spirit of both protection [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Canada, ESD design, Green architecture, Paul Raff Studio, Stair, Swimming pool
The multi-Award winning Cascade House by Canada-based architect firm Paul Raff Studio, is an eco-friendly house equipped with solar design systems. We always start from first principles of human scale and flow, and in search of opportunities to engage light and landscape, once we began to work with glass and slate, the house became characterized [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Display design, Features, Italy, Lattice screen, Perforated, Showroom, Skin, Studio 63
DEX Showroom in Osmannoro, Firenze, designed by Italy-based firm Studio 63 architecture and design. The showroom is given identity by the facade design that appears like a pixelized picture of the trees, filtering the natural and indoor lighting between inside and outside, creating a dramatic screen along the street. + Project description below courtesy of Studio [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Creative design, Korea, Modern coffee table, Ramei Keum
A talent designer from South Korea Ramei Keum has designed a contemporary coffee table which is folded in V shape. The geometric form was designed aesthetically and functionally, made in steel and finished in powder coated. + Designer’s statement courtesy of Ramei Keum ‘Gorge’ is a coffee table with a shape of a gorge. Designing [...]
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